Greeg watched as the Queen flew down into the lower chamber. He sighed, hefted his javelin and hurled it with as much skill as he could muster. As it returned to his hand, he then proceeded to make teh decent into the pit and once again fight the old matriarch.

"Fight on the ground you old Hag!" he called to her as he huffed his way down the side of the hive wall. "All this running around feels more like a kids game than a battle!" he complained, thinking of the little Goliaths playing catch and tag back at home. "Stupd insects" he muttered under his breath.

Edit - See, I get high rolls occasionally.....Usaully in non combat or damage situations....but they do come. Rev, if that Athletics is high enough I'll try climbing faster than usual (not sure if the rules support that or not) Cheers

Larvae attack v Fort and on hit, target loses a surge. If no surges remain, the creature is infested and dominated by the larvae.

Red Zone - to end encounter. Creatures starting their turns in the zone take 4d10+11 psychic damage.

Guldarin
Dram (and Dirt) - Dirt one squre down wall and can be attacked v Ref to end Queen's next turn
Larvae
Nayce - BLOODIED
Queen
Greeg - used AP; melee reach 3 and enemies hitting him with melee attacks take 5 damage; four squares down

"Yes, I know he's not as cuddly as the bear and it isn't as much fun. But I still want you to carry him up there, right now please, if you don't mind." Guldarin pauses for a moment. "I really don't think that would be appropriate, after all you wouldn't do that with your bear now would you?" His eyes widen slightly. "Ah, Nayce, I'm supposed to ask," Amy takes off vertically as Guldarin is speaking, "if you have a fur coat?"

Double move, Amy can carry Nayce 16 squares on a double move, so I think that's 10 up and across to J18

Larvae attack v Fort and on hit, target loses a surge. If no surges remain, the creature is infested and dominated by the larvae.

Red Zone - to end encounter. Creatures starting their turns in the zone take 4d10+11 psychic damage.

Dram (and Dirt) - Dirt one squre down wall and can be attacked v Ref to end Queen's next turn
Larvae
Nayce - BLOODIED
Queen
Greeg - used AP; melee reach 3 and enemies hitting him with melee attacks take 5 damage; four squares down
Guldarin

Larvae attack v Fort and on hit, target loses a surge. If no surges remain, the creature is infested and dominated by the larvae.

Red Zone - to end encounter. Creatures starting their turns in the zone take 4d10+11 psychic damage.

Nayce - BLOODIED
Queen
Greeg - used AP; melee reach 3 and enemies hitting him with melee attacks take 5 damage; four squares down
Guldarin
Dram (and Dirt) - Dirt one squre down wall and can be attacked v Ref to end Queen's next turn
Larvae

"Ah, Amy, would you mind coming back here and giving me a lift up the wall please."What? No, my beard is not a fake, I... why would you say something like that?" Guldarin sounds rather upset for a moment. "Oh, I see. You want to be sure it won't come off when you lift me by it. That actually sounds as if it would be rather uncomfortable, but if you feel it's really necessary I suppose I could accommodate your wishes. Or yes, I suppose I could struggle up the wall while you stay there and cheer on your furry friend. But I'm going to have to insist, I think. You can watch the fun later."

Greeg continued to climb down, his great strength and affinity for mountainous terrain assisting him in he effert. He leapt the last few feet, drawing his hammer as he did so and swinging with the will of the guardian spirits behind him.

Groping among Aedre's intestines is disgusting, but rewarding. Over the course of her long and predatory life, it is clear that she has eaten quite a number of indigestible objects. Gems glint appealingly from the mess, along with a ring of clear arcane power. It seems to be of high quality dwarven workmanship.

Kagash pokes enthusiastically at the mess and points out a pair of miraculously unspoiled gloves. They shimmer slightly, seeming to radiate a kind go healthful glow. Most unusual of all, it seems that Aedre's interior has constructed something wonderful. As she collapsed, her spinerets made one last effort to save her. Lying beneath her body is a cloak of spidersilk, outstandingly beautiful and much more durable than it seems.

You can use this power when you are hit by a power that has a pull, a push, or a slide effect. You negate the forced movement.

If you've reached at least one milestone today, you also gain immunity to pull, push, and slide effects (unless you are willing to be moved) until the end of your next turn.

Spoiler:

The gems have a total value of 5,000gp. They consist of 3 diamonds worth 1000gp each, a handful of uncut emeralds (9 in all, worth 1000gp in total) a lump of platinum worth 700gp and a pearl worth 300gp.

Spoiler:

Periapt of Cascading Health +3
Power Encounter (Minor Action)

You end one condition that a save can end.

Spoiler:

Gloves of the Healer
Property

When you use a power that lets one or more creatures spend a healing surge to regain hit points, one target regains an extra 1d6 hit points.

Power (Healing) Daily (Standard Action)

Spend a healing surge. An adjacent ally regains hit points equal to the value of the healing surge you lost.

"Hrm. Four treasures. I have heard of these rings," Cronin continues, fingering the dwarf-work. "I think they give such as us kinship to the stones and mountains -- including needing rest less often. Would anyone mind . . .

"But speaking of rest. It has been a taxing day. Kagash, barring further emergency, would you have us returned to our quarters?"

Don looks completely befuddled by the lumps of metal. "Where the hell did this thing eat..." He taps the ore with his dagger, "Platinum?" He leans down to the surely decapitated head of the beast then laughs, "Who'd you eat?"

I'm thinking the healer's gloves for Cronin, and the ring to Kevaras, the mantle'd probably suit me best, but I'm not committed to it.

"This thing..." He gestures to it, "This thing needs to be a trophy or something. You know, make a good knife out of its fangs or something."

Just normal max damage from Dirt as he doesn't have any enhancements to add to it.

Brambles fall away as Dirt claws viciously at the Queen. Dram follows up with a blast of turbulent water and the trignotarb screams. A mind-rending psychic tumuult surrounds her as the stolen secrets of years pour from her, bombarding the companions.

Greeg gritted his teeth against th pain from the strange thoughts bleeding from the queen. He hefted his hammer and moved resolutely into combat range, sensing the beast was getting desperate now the pain had come her way.

"Time to die girly. Time to become someone elses memory for a change eh!"

Going with the extended rest notion. Kevaras will be grateful, I'm sure.

In the aftermath of the battle with Aedre and her offspring, celebrations are breaking out around the group as Kagash leads you in triumph to the sleeping quarters. Many oklu now surround the building, but this time with an intent to keep curious citizens away from the new heroes. The atmosphere is decidedly more promising now.

"Hi ho, up we go." Guldarin directs Amy to lift him up the wall. "Well, aren't you a big one. Impressively large thorax, I'm sure it's very attractive to males, not that you need to be that attractive physically being a queen and all, people in general seem to be attracted to powerful and/or wealthy people no matter how physically attractive they actually are which does lead to some jealousy on the part of the people whose handsomeness is constantly being overlooked in favour of people who have that wealth and power, though of course I don't consider myself particularly handsome of course and come to think of it I'm not really without a certain amount of power, granted of course by the gods which does tend to make relationships a rather one-sided thing when you never know if you're going to be heading half way round the world on a quest you don't really understand not that that happens to me a lot, not more than once or twice a year, hardly anything at all, now where's my rod I need to do some smiting."

The bandit strolls back towards the paladin, perhaps a gleam of respect in his sole eye finally. Perhaps a mutual understanding, that underneath the drow's flippant remarks, and Don's not so subtle scorn that they did work together as a team well enough, that maybe there was something more than just a job here, maybe...maybe there was the beginning of some sort of camraderie, and a purpose, a purpose beyond the grifter lifestyle...

"I'll be having that potion back if you didn't use it."

"I suppose you deserve a drink," says the paladin as he hands the potion back.

He grabs two mugs from a passing oklu waiter carrying celebratory drinks, intending to drink both himself, but offers one of them to the rogue.